Deviant Behavior and Social Control

Chapter ONEDeviant- A person whose activities has moved outside the margins of the group, and when the community calls him to account for that vagrancy it is making a statement about the nature and placement of its boundaries. maybe in controlled quantities, an important condition for preserving the stability of social life Give inner structure its special character and thus supply the framework within which the people of the group develop an orderly sense of their own cultural identity. The common feeling that deviant persons never really change,then may derive from a faulty premise; but that feeling is expressed so frequently and with such conviction that is is eventually creates the facts which later "prove" it to be correct.

Chapter ONE